Alternative comics : an emerging literature / Charles Hatfield.

Examines long-form comics, focusing on the graphic novel, to argue that comics are a fundamental literary form and studies alternative comics as both a literary genre and a cultural phenomenon.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hatfield, Charles, 1965- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2005.
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Comix, comic shops, and the rise of alternative comics, post 1968
  • 2. An art of tensions
  • 3. A broader canvas
  • 4. "I made that whole thing up!"
  • 5. Irony and self-reflexivity in autobiographical comics
  • 6. Whither the graphic novel?